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The macroeconomic payoff from investment in universal economic and social human rights
Evidence is accumulating that the GDP and even tax revenue multipliers of increased public investment in the material sufficiency, agency and dignity of people underpinned by human rights are often strongly positive over 5 to 10 years. The budgeting and borrowing practices of governments and international financial institutions need to catch up and treat investment in social infrastructure, such as social protection systems, more like that in physical infrastructure, i.e., scored dynamically and partially amortized over a medium to long term budgetary window.
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The big fallacy in the backlash against ESG and stakeholder capitalism
WEF
Article critically analyzing the backlash against ESG and stakeholder capitalism in the US.
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Collaborating to Break the Cycle of Modern Slavery
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Spotlights the leading role of the ILO against forced labor and suggests a holistic response for prevention and enforcement.
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Integrated Corporate Governance: Six Leadership Priorities for Boards Beyond the Crisis
Forbes
Harvard's Jane Nelson and I outline a six-point leadership agenda for corporate boards seeking to strengthen their firms’ long-term competitiveness and resilience in the face of a number of systemic societal challenges reshaping the operating context of business in the 2020s.
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Can Governments Agree on Global Data Flows? Here Are Six Recommendations
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Under Japan’s G20 presidency in 2019, world leaders welcomed the Osaka Track – a call for closer international cooperation on cross-border data flows and emerging technologies that rely upon them.
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Level-up Economics: Democrats’ Policy Debates Can Realign American Politics
The Hill
Analysis of a promising emerging pattern in the economic policy positions of Democratic presidential candidates during the 2020 primary season.
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Give Climate and Trade Negotiators a New Joint Mission: Low-Carbon Trade Agreements
VoxEU
Article in leading European economic research outlet proposing a new type of plurilateral trade agreement or green trade alliance among a core group of major economies interested in aligning relevant enabling economic policies and standards for the purpose of accelerating adoption of low-carbon products and services across the world economy.
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Toward People-Centered Growth
Project Syndicate
ILO's Global Commission on the Future of Work recommends that countries increase investment in people to improve both social inclusion and economic growth. Co-authored with ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
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Globalization Needs an Upgraded Operating System
Project Syndicate
New technologies, climate change, rising social tensions, and geopolitical fragmentation require ambitious collective effort.
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Better Labor Standards Must Underpin the Future of Work
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
Governments and business should invest in the institutions of work to help workers through destabilizing job displacement and transformation.